Problems connecting to shared dbase from Vista Home Basic machine.

[misschrisp]

Have Business Contact Manager on 3 machines. Sharing database from BCM on XP
media center machine. 2nd machine (XP home) can connect but 3rd (Vista home)
machine can't. Help says that you can't share from a Vista Home machine or
an XP home machine. Since the XP home machine can connect, I thought the
Vista home probably would too. Have the dbase shared with the right names and
passwords as far as I can tell but get this message when I try to connect.
"Cannot find any Business Contact Manager databases on computer (name). For
more information about possible causes, click Help. I've tried to connect
with all firewalls off and disabled virus programs but no luck. Is the Vista
Home machine looking in the right place? There's no option to browse to the
file location when connecting... Is there another way?

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Luther]

Have Business Contact Manager on 3 machines. Sharing database from BCM onXP
media center machine. 2nd machine (XP home) can connect but 3rd (Vista home)
machine can't.  Help says that you can't share from a Vista Home machine or
an XP home machine. Since the XP home machine can connect, I thought the
Vista home probably would too. Have the dbase shared with the right namesand
passwords as far as I can tell but get this message when I try to connect..
"Cannot find any Business Contact Manager databases on computer (name). For
more information about possible causes, click Help. I've tried to connect
with all firewalls off and disabled virus programs but no luck. Is the Vista
Home machine looking in the right place? There's no option to browse to the
file location when connecting... Is there another way?

Any ideas?

Thanks

There are a bunch of settings that would reproduce what you are
seeing. Generally Windows Home default settings favor most home users
(e.g. run games) and Windows Pro favor business users (e.g. connect
applications to database servers). The different settings have been
covered in this newsgroup over the years, so searching earlier posts
may help.

In these situations I favor taking BCM out of the picture and trying
to connect your client machine to the server database directly using
sql software like Management Studio or sqlcmd.exe. BCM's database
connection UI makes it easier for BCM users when everything's aligned,
but Sql's tools will have better diagnostics when things don't work.